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Russia continues to use the Arctic as an expanding transport corridor for its hydrocarbon resources.
Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) suffered damage to its hull in a collision with a cargo ship while operating on the Northern Sea Route. Photos of the incident show a deep gash on the vessel’s port side near its bow.
The U.S. chalks up a critical win in its efforts to halt the expansion of Russia’s LNG sector.
China’s Arctic activities feature prominently in a new DoD report to Congress about the country’s military and security developments.
[By Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes]A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down.
Russia is facing a deficit of ice-class cargo vessels for its gigantic Northern Sea Route project as the nation cannot build the fleet on its own, according to Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev.
Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has less than a month left to send liquefied-gas cargoes across the Northern Sea Route toward Asia before the passage closes down for its tankers until next summer.
Two and a half months after suffering from an engine room fire, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is back in action.
The receding ice in the Arctic has opened up the planet’s far north to geopolitical competition
A U.S.-sanctioned gas tanker that picked up a cargo from Russia’s new Arctic LNG 2 plant this month has been spotted carrying out a ship-to-ship transfer, suggesting Moscow is managing to continue some exports from the project.
A second liquefied natural gas tanker left an export terminal in northern Russia that’s subject to US sanctions, ship-tracking data show.
Russia’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas in June cut processing at its Arctic LNG 2 facility to the lowest level since February, after US sanctions curtailed export options.
Two Chinese container ships have set course for the Arctic.
Shipping firms and environmental bodies say the IMO’s new restrictions on heavy fuel oil in the Arctic are riddled with loopholes.
Ships sailing through Arctic waters will no longer be able to use or carry heavy bunker fuel oil under a United Nations shipping agency regulation which took effect on Monday.
MARPOL Annex I Regulation 43A – the Arctic ban on use and carriage of highly polluting heavy fuel oil (HFO) – became law today, some 13 years after a similar regulation started in the Antarctic.
There are many loopholes to the ban, but environmentalists see it as a crucial first step.
Russia looks set to continue using the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut to deliver crude oil to Asia
“Beat the Microbead” is the name of a campaign launched in 2012 with the aim of reducing the use of microplastics in cosmetic products in order to minimise negative effects on the environment an
Environmental scientist Alice Pradel cultivates ice cores in the lab to investigate the transport and accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics
Swire Projects, a projects and heavy lift shipping services division of Swire Shipping, recently delivered project materials for a Canadian company’s mine expansion in the Arctic.
Russia has reiterated its ambition for an extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. During the 13th international Arctic Forum held last wee
While climatic tipping points have received significant attention from scientists, geopolitical tipping points in the Arctic are little examined
As the world’s oceans have broken surface temperature levels consistently during the past several months, more and more eyes have looked up to the north towards the growing shipping opportunities provided by the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which now has one of the longest shipping seasons on record. According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change …
